This course introduces students to contemporary digital design tools in order to better communicate fundamental architectural ideas. Students engage with CAD, 3D modeling, and 2D visualization techniques in Rhino 5 and Adobe CC, ultimately becoming an integral part of their creative design process. Students become proficient in digital drawing and modeling as they craft a short series of cumulative design exercises focusing on the tectonics and articulation of architectural surfaces.

A studio course open to first year students by audition. Students are involved in the creation of a new dance to be performed in November as part of the Mount Holyoke Faculty Dance Concert. Through collaborative compositional assignments, students generate inventive movement material that honors diverse training backgrounds, challenges expressive range, and builds partnering skills.

A comprehensive introduction to the study of modern astronomy, covering planets--their origins, orbits, interiors, surfaces and atmospheres; stars -- their formation, structure and evolution; and the universe -- its origin, large-scale structure and ultimate destiny. This introductory course is for students who are planning to major in science or math.

There's a low buzz; we feel nervous. Is this capitalism's end? Have zombie silhouettes hit the horizon yet? Keep checking. Anthropology narrates collective feelings, gives form to the ambience. But what's the ambience of late industrialism; what's it feel like to collapse? As we watch factory buildings crumble, we wonder whether the tap water's clean. The question of how to write the world (anthropologically-speaking) must also be a question of how to survive, thrive, and even flourish. Archaeologists have long explored decadence, collapse, and ruins.

This course will examine general attitudes about sex and gender roles among people of the Middle East by studying primary sources and scholarly literature relating to sexuality and its place within Middle Eastern societies. The course investigates the cultural landscape of the Middle East before the rise of Islam and inquires how the mix of the new religion together with the prevailing customs of Late Antiquity created a new framework for gendered relations.

In this course, we will explore the field of quorum sensing and cellular communication, focusing on strategies microbes have developed to sense neighboring cells and regulate biological processes. A specific emphasis will be placed on processes of biomedical importance and environmental relevance as well as effective strategies to manipulate of alter these processes to benefit mankind. Students will develop two presentations. Satisfies one of the three required modules for the Integrative Experience requirement for BS-MicBio majors.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a set of infectious diseases arising from a diverse group

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